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we did deal with the fiscal cliff issues. we have passed that. it's harry reid and the president that have yet to come up with something. if it was so easy, if they thought they had a solution to it, why didn't on friday they come to the table and actually pass something? the pressure is on them, what can they pass in the senate? >> harold, you know the politics of this but you also know the mark. is there a new pessimism we're not going to get a deal and not going to solve these issues anyway? >> big disappointment. people outside of washington understand clearly. a couple hundred billion over ten years separating both sides. the question becomes can washington still govern itself? two, there's a realization we're in the middle of a small recovery. if we find ourselves not able to resolve this moment, it retards and slows and undermines what we see ourselves doing going forward. finally, for the life of me as someone who 0 served there, it was so distressful to watch both sides yell at each other. i feel sorry for speaker boehner. i've seen some
we did deal with the fiscal cliff issues. we have passed that. it's harry reid and the president that have yet to come up with something. if it was so easy, if they thought they had a solution to it, why didn't on friday they come to the table and actually pass something? the pressure is on them, what can they pass in the senate? >> harold, you know the politics of this but you also know the mark. is there a new pessimism we're not going to get a deal and not going to solve these issues...
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and i think that the issue that we're dealing with right now in the fiscal cliff is a prime example of it. what i'm arguing for are intaining tax cuts for 98% of americans. i don't think anybody would consider that some liberal left-wing agenda. that used to be considered a pretty mainstream republican agenda. and it's something that we can accomplish today. if we simply allow for a vote in the senate and in the house to get it done. the fact that it's not happening is an indication of you know, how far certain factions inside the republican party have gone where they, they can't even accept what used to be considered centrist mainstream positions on these issues. now i remain optimistic, i'm just a congenital optimist, that eventually people kind of see the light. winston churchill used to say that we americans, we try every other option before we finally dot right thing. after everything else is exhausted, we eventually do the right thing. and i think that that's true for congress as well. and i think it's also important for americans to remember that politic has always been messy. p
and i think that the issue that we're dealing with right now in the fiscal cliff is a prime example of it. what i'm arguing for are intaining tax cuts for 98% of americans. i don't think anybody would consider that some liberal left-wing agenda. that used to be considered a pretty mainstream republican agenda. and it's something that we can accomplish today. if we simply allow for a vote in the senate and in the house to get it done. the fact that it's not happening is an indication of you...
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is it that important to get a deal to get us away from this fiscal cliff? >> well, it's critical to get the country on track to avoid the kind of financial calamity that we're seeing around europe, and i have a plan that does that. >> and we get his reaction to president obama's stinging criticism during his convention in charlotte. >> now, our friends down in tampa, at the republican convention, were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with america. but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. >> the fall campaign is new in full swing. with new, disappointing job numbers sharpening the debate over the economy. will americans blame the president for a high jobless rate, or give him four more years to solve the problem? inside analysis this morning from our roundtable, a rising star in the democratic party, who gave the keynote address at the democratic convention. the mayor of san antonio, julian castro. author and radio talk show house, bill bennett. columnist for "the washington post," e.j. dionne. columnist fo
is it that important to get a deal to get us away from this fiscal cliff? >> well, it's critical to get the country on track to avoid the kind of financial calamity that we're seeing around europe, and i have a plan that does that. >> and we get his reaction to president obama's stinging criticism during his convention in charlotte. >> now, our friends down in tampa, at the republican convention, were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with america....
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are we going to avoid the fiscal cliff by the first of the year or not? >> i hope so. if you look at the final positions last monday of both the president and speaker boehner, they were this close, they were this close to a solution. the president was about $200 billion higher on revenues, speaker boehner $200 billion higher on spending cuts. out of a $4 trillion budget, that doesn't seem insurmountable. so i hope they would keep talking. my one bit of advice to speaker boehner is this -- you cannot pass a bill with just republicans. on a broad thing like this, you need both and he has put himself with plan b in sort of an impossible position. he has to get these hard right guys to go along with him. if he were to say and the president were to say we're going to pass a bill with a majority of democrats and majority of democrats in the house and senate we could get a mainstream bill. i know he's worried about his speakership but what i found in my 37 years as a legislator, when you show leadership, when you show redirection and courage, even people who disagree with you
are we going to avoid the fiscal cliff by the first of the year or not? >> i hope so. if you look at the final positions last monday of both the president and speaker boehner, they were this close, they were this close to a solution. the president was about $200 billion higher on revenues, speaker boehner $200 billion higher on spending cuts. out of a $4 trillion budget, that doesn't seem insurmountable. so i hope they would keep talking. my one bit of advice to speaker boehner is this --...
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if we're going to deal with the fiscal cliff, right in the lame duck session, which i think is a huge challenge. we've got to get everybody working together. you look at some of the people that really do understand job creation and how businesses grow. warren buffett, who supported president obama, he's looking at this cliff issue as really one of the key issues. people do want certainty. but that's the biggest uncertainty of them all is can republicans and democrats work together and get a resolution here. >> let me ask you both, it's striking to me -- >> just on that one point. >> go ahead, governor. >> i would say on that point briefly. remember both of us are governors here. mitt romney is a governor in state where 85% of the legislature was democrat-controlled. yet he balanced the budget, did it without raising taxes in a way that helped create more jobs. per your point, he's proven he can do it in a state like massachusetts. i think he can do it in america america. >> it struck me there's not a more robust debate in this campaign about gun violence in americand what to do about
if we're going to deal with the fiscal cliff, right in the lame duck session, which i think is a huge challenge. we've got to get everybody working together. you look at some of the people that really do understand job creation and how businesses grow. warren buffett, who supported president obama, he's looking at this cliff issue as really one of the key issues. people do want certainty. but that's the biggest uncertainty of them all is can republicans and democrats work together and get a...
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is it that important to get a deal to get us away from this fiscal cliff? >> well, it's critical to get the country on track to avoid the kind of financial calamities you are seeing around europe. i have a plan that does that by really do -- >> but are you going to compromise? >> there's nothing wrong with the term compromise but there is something very wrong with the term abandoning one principles. i am standing by my principles and that is, i am not going to raise taxes on the american people. problem in our country is not that we're not paying enough taxes, it is that we are spending too much money and the economy is not growing as it could and should. look, we've just watched another month of tepid job numbers. this does not look like a recovery. the president's policies that meant have this economy is not growing as it should. fastest way to balance our budget is to grow the economy, put more people to work, see rising incomes. that's how you balance budgets. and so my tax policy is not designed to say, let's get some more money from people. it is desi
is it that important to get a deal to get us away from this fiscal cliff? >> well, it's critical to get the country on track to avoid the kind of financial calamities you are seeing around europe. i have a plan that does that by really do -- >> but are you going to compromise? >> there's nothing wrong with the term compromise but there is something very wrong with the term abandoning one principles. i am standing by my principles and that is, i am not going to raise taxes on...